This Evo will be more like the year of Team games, honestly. (KOF 14, DBZF, BBTAG, you name it)
I agree with you about BBTAG being too simple and a little disappointed that CF didn't make for EVO 2018 US, but what is done is done.

The PDF in japanese with REV 2.10 patch notes:
http://www.arcsystemworks.jp/portal/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/c22de3a66a1cf8d91b87ba3eaef286d1.pdf
EDIT: Evernote Link being translated:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s296/sh/f44307c3-6046-42f6-8b68-e5976b520f1a/14cdc7db9aafd0045e392847437e6a8f
For the Pot mains... it is time to rise

The main problem is that most of the people were scared away by the huge amount of DLC, most of them are RWBY fans because the main characters are separated by paywall.
They HAVE to do something about it, or else BB:TAG won't sell well.

I want to know some things:
1. EVO Japan starts right on Friday, has a schedule already been released with twitch links and stuff?
2. People are stating there will be patchs to both BB and GG, will it be announced right after the tournament? (Please, bring muh Unlimiteds back!)

If I'm not wrong, I recall people saying the last trailer has a part with a special intro between Yu and Yosuke, so it is likely there will be something like that. NOT as the level of DBZF because HOLY DAMN, Easter Eggs and References almost everywhere.

Letting this DLC problem aside, for now, because I hate too what ASW did, some time ago I saw some rumors, not those about character leak and all, but one thing caught my attention: Astral Heat. Will we have something like this in BBTAG? I know they've made something like Overdrive already, but I was curious about AH.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH ASW RIGHT NOW?! I mean... Half of the cast as DLC? What are you? EA? I hope they make it cheap or at least free for a period of time because this is bullshit. Or the game will be cheap as hell, because damn!
I hope, at least, they announce the rest of the cast before launch, I still rooting for Terumi to appear.

Welp, Blake got revealed, as DLC, along with a release date (May 31) and total number of characters, which seems to be 40. It looks like all the characters revealed after Blake will be DLC so, how many were confirmed before?
EDIT: Resolved to count it and 20 characters were already confirmed before Blake. I hope I'm wrong about the characters after her being DLC

In this last stream, they revealed the Top 10 in popularity poll currently, I only remember the Top 6: #6 Mai, #5 Noel, #4 Jin, #3 Terumi, #2 Hazama, #1 Ragna. Oh, and Es what #10 and Makoto was between
They revealed 4 Blazblue Chars: Tager, Makoto, Nu and Es, respectively.
Trailer may come soon to Youtube.
Apparently, BBCTag is anyone's game now, with some minor exceptions (Susanoo, Lambda...)
Edit: Here is the trailer:

Azrael is a must to this game! Many people from different places coming to BB world and the Mad Dog won't even have a chance to hunt them? I don't think so!
Now I only need Terumi and BB characters are done for me

I was rewatching Character Introduction #2 (Hazama, Rachel and Weiss) and I've noticed that Hazama uses his step dash and he doesn't have Ouroboros Meter this time around. Also, I've seen somewhere that you can use up to three/four Geoges at once with Rachel. And Weiss... well, the Ice Queen uses Glyphs for movement and projectiles (those circle things you all saw), so yeah, she will be strong
These three specifically are the most OP in my opinion... yet.